On the weekend of the 24 and 25 of July I helped out in the PVGP again as a ham radio operator. I have a few pictures you can see them at http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=55 (also for the record I did not take these pictures, one of the flag operators took them [...]
The Pictures from the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration for this year are up now.
I just got back from the Pittsburgh Vantage Grand Prix. I was working as a ham with the other hams to do the communication for the race. I was working at turn 5 there. I will also be working on it tomorrow, I will be going in late since I [...]
I am trying to get a few friends together for July 4th this year. I am hoping to go biking with some friends, stop for some lunch as some out of the way place, and end up at the North Shore to watch the Fire Works this year. If I [...]
OK, as I promised here is a post that has some real content in it, and for me this is also some big news, probably the biggest news I have shared on my blog since I started it up in July of 2004. Back then I had been work here [...]
I know in Pittsburgh we have been saying “One for the Tumb” for so long. Now what will we say next year when the Stealers go to the Super Bowl? Will we be saying “One for the other Tumb”? or what?
For those of you that know about it There is a podcast called pghcast that covers topics of interst for the Pittsburgh regions. Well on Monday they did a show on the Super Bowl win (well no shocker there) but they said that they would cover the Pens next week. [...]
Some guy in Seattle, Dave Fox’s Outbursts does not seam to think there is much to be happy about in Pittsburgh. I would say go over there and tell him what you love about Pittsburgh.
They claim that the reason we need to have casinos in Pittsburgh is to stop the out flow of money from the region, and we will have an inflow from people comming in from out of state. I don’t think so. The people in West Virgina will not come to [...]
Mark Rauterkus is reporting that companies on the north shore are opposing casinos on the North Shore. This is great news for me, I don’t want to see any casinos there. There is a bike trail that I bike on allot, also I like going there for the 4th of [...]
I posted over the weekend about the new tablet I got, I am impressed with the battery life. It probably has a longer on since it not connected to the cell system, and that when it “sleeps” it turns of the wifi, so it better with the battery then my [...]I got a new Tablet today, a Toshiba Thrive. It is a nice system it has a 10.1″ screen on it, I also got a bluetooth keyboard to go with it. I have a case that can convert it to a stand up, making typeing stuff on it nice, without [...]The Issues Etc App for Android is now on the Android Market please see the link below. https://market.android.com/details?id=org.issuesetc.android#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLmlzc3Vlc2V0Yy5hbmRyb2lkIl0.I have noted I have not needed to moderate as spam any comments, as Akismet is working so well, I am going to test for a bit, turning off all moderation needed for all comments, and let Akismet deal with the spam, if it continues as well as it seems [...]For Issues Etc Fans I am finally ready to let a beta 3 version of the Issues Etc App for Android out. UPDATE: Christmas Day 2011 midnight, there is an update that I encourage you do download it as there is a bug fix If you have any bug reports [...]If you are an Issues, Etc fan that is using the Issues, Etc App for Android watch this blog tomorrow (Christmas Eve)For Issues Etc Fans I am finally ready to let a beta 2 version of the Issues Etc Android App out. If you have any bug reports and/or suggestions please email them to mpop@mikeoconnor.net and in the subject line please precede it with “Issues Etc App:”. To install it follow [...]Got a 32Gb mSD card for my android phone today, and using a program called iSyncr to copy a good chunk of my music collection to my my Android, now when I leave in the morning for work I have one less device to grab, now that my Android Cell [...]I for one think the days of TV are numbered, why? well let me tell you about tonight. I for once had a chance to site back and relax. I pull out my tablet computer (And android device, but for the sake of this story it could have been any [...]I found today a way to breath some new life into an “older” andoid phone. I have recently had some slow downs on my phone and it having some trouble getting a GPS signal. Today I cleared the dalvik-cache and I have noticed a slightly faster system and less GPS [...]